Looks like the fans are turning on Levine, but for fairly good reason. Nobody expected the team to do great this year since it was replacing everyone including Mr. UH Case Keenum, but the team should be doing better than this. They better win their last two and get to a bowl game. Failure to do so and Levine will deserve Dimel comparisons.

Too early. One year isn’t time enough. Even Yeoman struggled his first few years – they were burning him in effigy on campus. I suppose you would have been in that crowd? Have you written a check to cover his buyout to Mac? Just sayin’…

No 7th ” playoff bowl” but (Big East/CUSA/Mountain West/Sunbelt) will have slot in one of 6 ” playoff bowls. One slot for the team with the highest ranking. The bad news is the Big East will be treated no better or worse than any of these conferences. We are not moving to a BIG TIME league.

Obviously, it would not be good to lose this recruit. O’Korn hasn’t officially decommitted but I would keep an eye on this situation. We have already lost 1 recruit to SMU a few weeks ago. If we lose O’Korn, I think we all can start connecting the dots about what HS players think of CTL. If he decommits and others follow, this becomes a serious issue as it would be obvious that CTL has no credibility with HS recruits.

First in a long line of recruits to change directions (assuming their grades are good enough) to move to a winning program. How quickly the fans change their tunes. Before season started it was 12-2, 11-3 with a conference title….now, lucky to even get to .500. Is it possible for every sports program within UH to be sub .500 this year? Looking like it.

I was under the delusion that we would have a much better year than we’ve had (didn’t think 10-4 was out of the question). Even though, I knew we would not be able to equal last year’s lofty highs. I can actually accept the losses. I really can. But it’s the apparent lack of focus that the team suffers that’s making me quickly lose confidence in Levine. From day one, the team just doesn’t seem prepared to play. I was hoping we’d turn the corner after the first three games, and at times, it looked like maybe we had. But the team just doesn’t seem ready to play. I know that were without Sims and Hayden this last game, but we couldn’t string three or four good plays together on either side of the ball. And the play calling on offense has been… lacking. It pains me to think of us return to the laughingstock we were throughout the 90s. I hope that one way or the other, this is rectified.

I can accept some losses too but not the way this team is losing. They haven’t been very competitive in any of their losses. This is CUSA, not the SEC!!! when I saw the final score of the last game, I couldn’t help but think of just how far this program has fallen. They scored 7 points at The Rob and almost didn’t get that! How many PPG did they avg. last year? 50 ppg? That is really hard to accept. Levine is running this program into the ground at a high rate of speed.

If you read this John O’Korn I hope you can see that this school really is a great place to be at. We might be having a hiccup right now but I hope you decide to stay committed. Uh will be happy to have you and I’m sure you’ll fit right in and kick some butt! I saw some of your highlights and I’m impressed and happy that you’ve chosen our school to attend.

I just hope we can get better offensive lineman and defensive lineman. We need speed on both sides of the ball. I think Levine will be staying. But I think he needs to get an experienced OC or someone from a top program.

So it starts…what do you expect when you have a loser for a head coach….nobody wants to be on a losing team and Levine has destroyed a once proud team and taken the program back to the Dimel/Helton era. One more stint with Levine and the program may be gone for a decade or more.

…what do you expect when you have a loser for a head coach….nobody wants to be on a losing team and Levine has destroyed a once proud team and taken the program back to the Dimel/Helton era. One more stint with Levine and the program may be gone for a decade or more.

It starts with Rhoades. He hired a nice, hard working guy who he hoped could be in charge of a good, not great program. So far he is wrong. He hired a staff with very little experience. We are seeing the results. I mean we fired a new OC after one game! We really have no idea how this staff can recruit. So far only 11 commits. That does not bode well, as most other have 14-24 recruits. I am guessing that CTL feels that the only D1 QB on the team is Piland, or Kohlhausen would have gotten more snaps this year. I would like to see a good junior college QB to be recruited to compete with Piland. I am tired of seeing side arm throws off the back foot. The announcers said something interesting about Piland. They said he gets very down on himself and sits by himself on the bench, not exactly the leadership style you’d like to see. He’s had over 1 1/2 yrs to prove himself and so far he hasn’t progressed as he should. That throw to Greenberry (apparently) that was intercepted was the last straw for me. I do really feel sad for Greenberry, stuck here in this mess instead of undefeated and #3 in BCS. It will really get ugly if this trend continues. The thought of 18000 fans in Reliant next year is depressing. I just thought we were beyond this as a program.

Greenberry came here because he had a chance to play immediately. The Notre Dame team is stacked and he very likely would not be playing. I would think O’Korn is looking at this in the same way, and obviously by the play of our startinig QB this season that position is/should be wide open.

Be honest Mack, is the hiring of Coach Tony Levine the best you can do for University of Houston? For goodness sake we were beat by Texas State who’s head coach Dennis Franchinone, is paid only $250,000 a year. Compare that with our no name coach Tony Levine who has better talent and better facilities and is paid $800,000 a year.
For starters I would be surprised if your search for a head coach included any assistants of big time BCS Schools. Secondly if you were attempting to lure an experienced head coach like Sonny Dykes, why would insult him by throwing peanuts at his feat.
Mack we have stepped up our level of competition without stepping up our coaching.
I have an idea don’t fire Coach Tony demote him and his salary and place him in charge of football operations / quality control. Let him supplement his salary by holding coaches clinics if he feels that he is not making enough money.
If you let Tony Levine coach one more season at UH, we will be playing our games at HISD’s DELMAR STADIUM the jewel of the Houston Independent School District,for there will be no cheeks in seats with with him as our head coach.

There are clowns everywhere on here. I don’t even bother arguing logic because people don’t listen. Remember at the beginning of the year when everyone bashed me for saying Greenberry would start and would be the greatest to come through this program? Now everyone can get enough of him. Fake fans all over the place. You except OKorn to do so well and save our progran when he is just as highly recruited as Bram K was when we got him. Remember who our top recruit was in 2010? Exactly. Makes no sense to have all kinds if hope in this young man when many of you bashed that Greenberry wouldn’t do anything. Stop worrying about recruits and show up to games. O korn is one of our most supportive recruits and actually has taken the initiative in trying to recruit some of his teammates for us.

It’s difficult to see how everyone disparaging Coach Levine think this is helping anything….someone was right when they mentioned recruits reading this stupid garbage. You’re disgusting and I hope most readers realize you’re a bunch of simpletons…Eat Em Up Coogs!

Yea, I guess if top recruits read this we’ll run the risk of a 4-6 season and being embarassed in double digit losses to teams like Texas St…

The head coach is more important than ANY player or ANY single recruiting class. We’re broken from the top down and the considerable talent that we have on this roster is going to waste. That needs to be addressed regardless of recruiting and sooner rather than later.

This is bad. Really, really bad. I read somewhere that Wisconsin actually had their eye on him for a while, but needed to see more before extending an offer. I can’t help but think the timing for them was perfect after his unofficial visit to see the UH homecoming loss. We really need to get a petition to Mack Rhoades about Tony Levine and this staff. I’m not an alumnus (yet), but maybe you guys can put the pressure on them to make a change since your money is needed and helps the program. Students can’t refuse to pay fees. Something needs to be done.

Anybody with a brain can see that this once up and coming program that lead the nation in almost every offensive category, was held scoreless for almost an entire game and a program that was just one game away from going undefeated and playing for $15 million in a BCS bowl game is now headed back to obscurity. UH fans had better get used to this new reality and I expect every verbal commitment to jump at any D1 offer that comes their way if Levine is retained. The fact that Piland is an absolute bust at QB for UH yet Levine leaves the guy in until a shutout was about to happen speaks volumes about his coaching ability. I feel the OC that Levine fired after just one game is laughing his gut out at what is going down on Cullen;A total embarrassment and a disgrace.

Tony, in his defense, had a Class A coaching staff that was gutted. What does he have now? Some Jr. College coaches. Cliff Kingsbury, although young, would have been a better choice. Look @ A&M vs Alabama. It would have been better to anticipate the Sumlin departure and contact people like Mike Leach at the time. If we want to reach a larger stage (athletically)we shouldn’t be looking to see how much we can save but who is the best fit for our program. This situation that we have only points out that the HC is only a piece of the equation, it is the assistants that come with him that complete the picture. Tony, in his defense, is a bright guy and from some of the things he said about bulking up some of his recruits to meet Big East standards will pay off next year. It is hard to learn and teach @ the same time. Most of our defensive packages just aren’t working. Our innovative offense is now becoming “old hat” to the people we are playing as everyone seems to be employing the spread offense and the defenses have adjusted to it. We need better execution in what we do and that requires better players…..and on and on

ATTN: “Fair Weather Fans”!
Win or lose, your supposed to stick by your team (Even during the bad times). This team will win again, I promise. Be patient and remember the more you whine about every negative thing the football team does the more it sticks with potential prospects. Maybe you should consider commenting how the team has handled the injuries and a young QB and could still make a bowl game.

Even Art Briles had a losing season and no bowl due to injuries while at Houston.